Research Technician I Field and Laboratory

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Description

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Under the supervision of the Assistant Scientist, the Research Technician will execute routine field, screen-house, greenhouse, and laboratory operations including field preparation and maintenance, crop management, plant sampling as well as harvest and post-harvest seed processing, and laboratory analyses on genome editing research.

This position will be based at the IRRI Headquarters, Los Baños, Philippines and may only be filled by permanent citizens of the Philippines.

Responsibilities:

• Execute routine field, screen-house, greenhouse, and laboratory operations including field preparation and maintenance, crop management, plant sampling as well as harvest and post-harvest seed processing, and laboratory analyses on genome editing research
• Provide timely, consistent, and accurate information to the direct supervisor to ensure that research objectives and SOPs are followed;
• Support researchers and scientists in establishing laboratory and screen-house experiments
• Prepare materials and layout and ensure proper maintenance of the experiment operations, as required by the institute and government protocols including maintenance of storage and preparation of supplies, property and materials inventory, cleanliness, orderliness and safety, preparation of commonly used buffers and reagents in the laboratory as well as fertilizers in the screen-house, and proper waste disposal;
• Collect data and ensure correct encoding on the assigned database

Qualifications:

• High school graduate with a minimum of 1 year of relevant work experience

Skills Required:

Mandatory:

• Has experience in rice production
• Experience in managing experiments in the field, screen-house, greenhouse, laboratory 

Source: https://www.irri.org/talentlink/details.html?id=Q7LFK026203F3VBQB79QWQWAS&nPostingID=1926&nPostingTargetID=3475&mask=irriext&lg=EN

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